Recent advances have increased the number of bacteria, protists, fungi, and insects are known to science, making it difficult ...

According to most experts, the first mammal was Morganucodon, a small, shrew-like rodent that appeared during the Jurassic Period, approximately 200 million years ago. It weighed a few ounces and ...

We’re only in the early stages of 2026, and one massive change from last year may have already occurred: there may actually ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Securing the survival of the Saola requires overcoming a 13-year absence of confirmed visual evidence, with the last widely accepted camera trap photo taken in 2013. Existing survey coverage accounts ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...

New research suggests that land-based echidnas descended from semi-aquatic mammals. Gunjan Pandey CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Between backward-facing-feet, nipple-less milk secretion and ...